[nabs-l] An Article about another Student at Myy College

[Arielle Silverman]

Does anyone else get a guide dog at the age of 11?
Just thought it was slightly strange..
Arielle

On 5/7/11, Kirt Manwaring <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jedi,
>   Maybe it'll makemore sense if I say it this way.  I wasn't refering
> to a person's intrinsic value.  I should've said we can't compete on
> an equal level by default.  I'm going to invert a statement you've
> heard a billion times.  Without propper training and opportunity,
> blindness is a great deal more than a mere nuisence, and is, in fact,
> a very significant limitation.  Would you agree?
>   Best regards,
> Kirt
>
> On 5/7/11, Ignasi Cambra <ignasicambra at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think I know him too. We got our guide dogs at the same time back in
>> 2004.
>> I remember Matt really loved baseball at the time, and he was always
>> playing
>> outside with his dad. I couldn't really speak English at the time and we
>> were very young, so I don't think we got to talk much. Actually, when they
>> were matching dogs with owners he got assigned my current guide dog, but
>> Matt walked too slow for the dog, or maybe it was the dog walking too fast
>> :). But the fact is that I ended up with that dog, which is still working
>> wonderfully! I was always walking a little faster than the dog they
>> assigned
>> me at first, so it worked out very well. I guess that's the advantage of
>> instructors having a huge pool of trained dogs to choose from for each
>> person.
>>
>> IC
>> On May 6, 2011, at 1:20 PM, Jedi wrote:
>>
>>> I believe Matt Cooper participated in Youth Slam 2007. I met him and was
>>> quite impressed with him just because he was a down-to-earth kind of guy
>>> who didn't toot his own horn to much. He was an all-around good kid.
>>>
>>> I really liked the title the school gives to its DSS office. It makes so
>>> much sense and isn't euphemistic at all. "Office for Accessible
>>> Education." I think I might suggest that to my school.
>>>
>>> Respectfully,
>>> Jedi
>>>
>>> Original message:
>>>> What do you guys think of this?
>>>> http://www.stanforddaily.com/2011/05/04/seeing-it-through/
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Arielle Silverman
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